Chaim Potok

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#learn

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#davita #harp #past #planning #potok

Something that is yours forever is never precious ↗

— Chaim Potok

#love #my-name-is-asher-lev #value #life

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#art

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#art

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#art

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#rebel #true-beauty #universal #universal-beauty #beauty

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#art

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#art

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#inspirational #religious #art